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What movies are opening in September 2022?

The Mission Impossible team is back.
The Mission Impossible team is back. Image: Paramount

Salem’s Lot – Speaking of vampires, the Stephen King novel is getting another adaptation, this time from writer-director and horror-genre veteran Gary Dauberman (Annabelle Comes Home). (September 9)

Distant – Anthony Ramos (In the Heights), Naomi Scott (Aladdin), Krisfofer “Hodor” Hivju, and Zachary Quinn (who’ll be voicing an AI character) star in this tale of an asteroid farmer who gets marooned on an alien planet, where he makes contact with a similarly desperate crewmate who’s trapped in an escape pod. (September 16)

Don’t Worry Darling – Fresh off the incredible Booksmart, Olivia Wilde’s sophomore directorial effort stars Florence Pugh as a 1950s housewife who begins to discover not-so-great things about her husband. (September 23)

Mission Impossible 7 – Tom Cruise will ride a motorcycle off a cliff and land safely at the bottom. That’s about all we know about the next installment in the mega spy franchise, once again directed by Christopher McQuarrie. (September 30)